How Does Vocational Education Impact Income Gaps?
Education plays an important role in countering inequality, and education policy can be an efficient tool for policymakers to reduce income disparities. According to the Economic Policy Institute, on...
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Tech: The Goal, or Just Another Path to Growth?
In 2012, the average resident of San Francisco supported about $76,000 in gross domestic —about $19,000 more than the average in Chicago. That gap has widened to more than $29,000 today. San...
View ArticleFake News and Filter Bubbles: Rethinking Counterspeech in the Age of Social...
Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, many pundits and politicians have denounced “fake news” as a new, corrosive force in public discourse. While it is commonly agreed that a well-informed public...
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Is Facial Recognition Inhibiting Our Freedom of Speech?
When technology benefits us, it’s hard to not like it. It can track our sleeping patterns, check our news feed, alert us to meetings, and remind us to check the chicken in the oven. On a daily basis,...
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Try Accuracy Prompts to Reduce the Spread of Misinformation Online
The rapid dissemination of inaccurate information––otherwise known as misinformation––within the online news media ecosystem has become a subject of pressing concern. As media consumption habits move...
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Technological Innovation: False Hope or Promising Solution to Combating...
From the wheel in Ancient Mesopotamia to modern artificial intelligence, technology has aided society for thousands of years. The most transformative era came during the Industrial Revolution, when...
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Asynchronous Telepsychiatry: An Unused Solution to the Psychiatrist Shortage
The United States is facing a severe shortage of psychiatrists. In 2018, 77% of counties in the United States reported a severe deficit of psychiatrists, while an estimated 60% of adults with mental...
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Has technological innovation lost the plot? An interview with AI ethicist Dr....
Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) at the University of Edinburgh, where she is also appointed in...
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Sitting on a Ticking Bomb: Introducing Congressional Oversight for Zero-Day...
Each new military paradigm and technological development promises new legal and policy questions. Every innovation in weaponry brings new range, cost, and training while impacting civilian life, posing...
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Cory Doctorow on Why Interoperability Would Boost Digital Competition
Cory Doctorow is an activist and science fiction writer. He was the co-editor of the blog Boing Boing and has served in various roles at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil rights...
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